Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Decoding a cancer-relevant splicing decision in the RON proto-oncogene using high-throughput mutagenesis

  • Simon Braun,
  • Mihaela Enculescu,
  • Samarth T. Setty,
  • Mariela Cortés-López,
  • Bernardo P. de Almeida,
  • F. X.  Reymond Sutandy,
  • Laura Schulz,
  • Anke Busch,
  • Markus Seiler,
  • Stefanie Ebersberger,
  • Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais,
  • Stefan Legewie,
  • Julian König,
  • Kathi Zarnack

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05748-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Alternative splicing is a critical step in eukaryotic gene expression but its molecular rules are not fully understood. Here, the authors develop a high-throughput mutagenesis approach to comprehensively characterise determinants of alternative splicing for the RON proto-oncogene.